Archive for the 'Telecommuting' Category

The Federal Times reports that President Elect Obama promises to expand Federal Telework options among all the other things he’s promising.
If you read the content of the article, every thing he’s promising - except perhaps the teleworking - will require additional revenue in the form of taxes.

Chippewa Falls Man Has The Drive To Work From Home
Read it at Chippewa Falls, WI & Chippewa.com
It’s 75 miles from Chippewa Falls to St. Paul Minnesota. Thankfully this man only has to make the long commute once per week. The rest of the time he’s teleworking. So does his wife… Both work in [...]

There are more telecommuters being hired in Omaha, Nebraska according to KETV 7
Companies mentioned in the report:
Convergys Corporation
Alpine Access
Working Solutions

According to the Washington Business Journal a record number of companies are letting people work from home:
Forty-two percent of U.S. companies surveyed said they offered teleworking programs to employees this year, compared to only 30 percent last year. In Canada the jump was even bigger — from 25 percent to 40 percent.
Technology advances play a [...]

WCCO.com: St. Paul Workers Prepare To Telecommute During RNC
Many downtown workers plan to sit out the convention and avoid the rush by working at home. Major employers like The Traveler’s allow their staff to work at home on their laptop computers.
It’s a phenomenon that’s common across the Twin Cities. Some small businesses will close entirely!

Well, if it’s big enough that is. Coming from Nigeria, I thought it was to enable 10 million notifications hourly that someone in the US had inherited money from somebody they are only related to through Shem, Ham or Japheth, but apparently there are legitimate business uses for data servers in Nigeria.
Seriously though, it’s a [...]

Make Money Teaching Online:If you’re one of my readers who loved the book Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary, you’ll love this listing of telecommuting Adjunct professors.
It’s a current listing of telecommuting adjunct instructors for Kaplan University. Degrees required… plus online teaching experience.
With [...]

You mean telework isn’t working for everyone? Well, we knew you can’t exactly fight fires from home. You have to show up for that job. Hmmm… where else might telecommuting not work too well. According to the FederalTimes.com one big problem area is when walk in customers can’t get service.
Housing and Urban Development [...]

As you’ll note from the blurb,  it’s a variety of factors at work - demand for employees, looming exodus of the older “Baby Boomer” generation, the demand to be “environmentally friendly”, etc.  Some places want to cut down on traffic, cut down on the need for real estate for parking garages, etc. Now may be [...]

When we were trying to get high speed internet for my wife’s transcription business, people kept asking us “Can’t you get Verizon’s high speed wireless internet?”
For one thing the local reps could never GUARANTEE we’d have access where we live. Knowing phone companies like I do, I didn’t even want to take a test drive.
Then [...]